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Island focus: Schools paralyzed amid teachers’ strike

About 6,000 contract teachers in Wonogiri, Central Java, have staged a strike, effectively halting the daily activities at several kindergartens, elementary and high schools in the region on Tuesday

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Thu, October 11, 2018 Published on Oct. 11, 2018 Published on 2018-10-11T01:29:24+07:00

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bout 6,000 contract teachers in Wonogiri, Central Java, have staged a strike, effectively halting the daily activities at several kindergartens, elementary and high schools in the region on Tuesday.

The teachers, grouped under the Contract Teacher Defenders Front (FPHI), protested the government’s refusal to grant them civil servant status, even after they failed to pass the recruitment process for candidate civil servants (CPNS) and contract-based government employees (PPPK).

“We demand that the central government grant the teachers CPNS status without having to undergo the general CPNS recruitment process,” said the head of the Wonogiri contract teachers forum, Sunthi Sari, in front of the Wonogiri Education Agency building.

She added that around 90 elementary schools in the region were paralyzed by the strike, because the majority of teachers were not civil servants.

“We sincerely apologize. We had to make a tough decision to make the government listen to what we have to say,” Sunthi said.

Wonogiri School Principal Forum head Mahmud Yunus said around 78 senior and junior high schools were still operating because most of their teachers were civil servants who did not participate in the strike.

Wonogiri Education Agency head Siswanto said the absence of teachers had halted activities at several schools.

“We have instructed the remaining civil servant teachers to merge classes. Whatever it takes to resume daily activities at schools,” he said.

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